Texas markets continue to point ou...

Texas markets continue to point out signs of bouncing back Following several disastrous years, construction activity is picking up in the West toward the south Central region. This fourstate region (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana) was a beneficiary of high oil prices and easy riches during the first half of the 1980 As sure as bust follows deep and hollow humming circumstances changed dramatically at mid-decade, resulting in annual nonresidential construction spending being more than halved by the agency of 1988. Spending began to incline slowly back up during 1989 and indications are that improvement will continue in